Hi. I make orchestral music and was dissatisfied with the lack of quality libre sampled orchestral instruments. There are a few gratis orchestras, but none of them are good enough:
* Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra - licensed under CC-Sampling+ which prohibits commercial distribution of the samples. * No Budget Orchestra - contains a mix of free and non-free instruments. * Virtual Playing Orchestra - same as NBO. Maintainer previously claimed NC clause over the compilation but was corrected because it has CC-BY-SA files. * VSCO Community Edition - public domain but control files are extremely bad quality. Could be intentional to guide users to its full proprietary version. So I decided to make orchestra with freedom in mind. I've taken all 100% libre instruments from No Budget Orchestra into a separate project and called it Libre Orchestra. https://libreorchestra.net/ The orchestra uses SFZ format as it is the common format for gratis and libre sampled instruments. However, there is no libre sampler for GNU/Linux. LinuxSampler comes close but its backend has NC clause. SFZero is MIT but has no GNU/Linux port. The orchestra repository is hosted on GitLab and I provide ZIP and DEB versions for download. I hope to see it in official Debian repository and other 100% libre FSF approved distributions. If you can contribute samples or SFZ files or make libre SFZ sampler, your help will be greatly appreciated.
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